Any establishment or premises whereupon or wherein four or more dogs
are kept, maintained or harbored or whereupon or wherein the business of boarding,
selling or breeding dogs is carried on, except a pet shop.

The agency or department of this municipality or any designated representative
thereof charged with administering the issuance and/or revocation of permits
and licenses under the provisions of this chapter.

No person shall own, keep, harbor or maintain any dog
over seven months of age within this municipality unless such dog is vaccinated
and licensed. The provisions of this section do not apply to dogs held by
a state or federal licensed research facility or a veterinary establishment
where dogs are received or kept for diagnostic, medical, surgical or other
treatments or licensed animal shelters, pounds, kennels or pet shops.

All dogs shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian in accordance with the latest Compendium of Animal Rabies Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization, published by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, except as provided for in Subsection D.

Any dog may be exempted from the requirements of such
vaccination for a specified period of time by the local Board of Health upon
presentation of a veterinarian's certificate stating that, because of an infirmity
or other physical condition or regimen of therapy, the inoculation of such
dog shall be deemed inadvisable.

Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing
age shall, in the month of January of each year, apply for and procure from
the Township Clerk a license and official metal registration tag for each
such dog.

Any person who shall fail to procure a license and registration for any dog of licensing age by January 31 of any year shall pay a late fee in addition to the license and registration fee in accordance with the fee schedule contained in Chapter 72 of this Code. Said licenses, registration tags and renewals thereof shall expire on the last day of January of each year.

Dogs used as guides for blind persons and dogs specifically
trained to assist the handicapped, commonly known as "Seeing Eye" dogs, shall
be licensed and registered as other dogs hereinbefore provided for, except
that the owner or keeper thereof shall not be required to pay any fee therefor.

The owner of any newly acquired dog of licensing age
or of any dog which attains licensing age shall make application for and procure
a license and registration tag for such dog within 10 days after the acquisition
or age attainment. There shall be no adjustment of the license or registration
fee for licenses or registration tags issued and valid for a fractional portion
of the license year.

Any person who shall bring a dog into this Township from
another state shall apply for a license and registration tag for said dog
within 90 days after it is brought into this Township if it is registered
in such other state, and within 10 days if it is not registered in such other
state.

The municipality shall annually cause a canvass to be made of all dogs
owned, kept or harbored within the limits of the municipality and shall report,
on or before September 1 of each year, to the Clerk or other person designated
to license dogs in the municipality and to the State Department of Health,
the results thereof.

No owner of any dog nor any person in charge of any dog
shall suffer or permit such animal to run at large upon any public street,
public park, public building or other public place within the Township or
on private property without the permission of the owner of said property or
other person having control thereover.

Every person owning, keeping or harboring any dog in
this Township shall prevent such dog from running at large upon the lands
of any person, other than the person owning, keeping or harboring such dog,
without the consent of the owner of such lands.

No person shall own, keep or harbor a dog or other domestic
animal which habitually barks, howls, cries or makes other noises for more
than any one hour or continuous barking and howling for periods of less than
one hour but more than 1/2 hour, which periods occur on two or more consecutive
days, whether during the day or night. No person shall own more than one dog
or other domestic animal which, as a collective group, habitually barks, cries,
howls or make other noise for more than any one hour or continuous barking
and howling for periods of less than one hour but more than 1/2 hour,
whether during the day or night. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the
normal and occasional barks, cries, howls or other noises associated with
any one such domestic animal.

No person who shall own or be in charge of any dog shall
cause, suffer or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any
nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area,
park or any other place where people congregate or walk or upon any public
property whatsoever or upon any private property, without the permission of
the owner or person in control of said property. The restrictions in this
section shall not apply to that portion of the street lying between the curblines
or upon the street surface, which shall be used to curb such dog, subject
to the following conditions:

Every person owning, keeping or harboring any dog in
this Township shall prevent such dog, if it is a female and in season, from
being off the grounds or property of the person owning, keeping or harboring
such dog.

Any officer or agent authorized or empowered to perform
any duty under this chapter is hereby authorized to go upon any premises to
seize for impounding any dog which he may lawfully seize and impound when
such officer is in immediate pursuit of such dog, except upon the premises
of the owner of the dog if said owner is present and forbids the same.

The dog shall be impounded as soon as reasonably possible
after said cause is determined to exist and until the final disposition as
to whether the dog is vicious or potentially dangerous. Subject to the approval
of the Township Health Officer, the dog may be impounded in a facility or
other structure agreeable to the owner.

The Animal Control Officer shall notify the Municipal
Court and the Municipal Health Officer immediately that he has seized and
impounded a dog pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-19, or that he has reasonable cause
to believe that a dog has killed another domestic animal and that a hearing
is required. The Animal Control Officer shall, through a reasonable effort,
attempt to determine the identity of the owner of any dog seized and impounded
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-19. If its owner cannot be identified within seven
days, the dog may be humanely destroyed.

The Animal Control Officer shall, within three working
days of the determination of the identity of the owner of a dog seized and
impounded pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-19, notify by certified mail, return receipt
requested, the owner concerning the seizure and impoundment, and that, if
the owner wishes, a hearing will be held to determine whether the impounded
dog is vicious or potentially dangerous. This notice shall also require that
the owner return, within seven days, by certified mail or hand delivery, a
signed statement indicating whether he wishes the hearing to be conducted,
or if not, to relinquish ownership of the dog, in which case the dog may be
humanely destroyed. If the owner cannot be notified by certified mail, return
receipt requested, or refuses to sign for the certified letter, or does not
reply to the certified letter with a signed statement within seven days of
receipt, the dog may be humanely destroyed.

Additional provisions. In addition to the terms and conditions
of N.J.S.A. 4:19-23, where a dog is found to be potentially dangerous, but
is not ordered to be destroyed in a humane and expeditious manner, every owner
of a dog determined to be potentially dangerous shall:

Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog shall provide it with
proper and adequate food and water, proper shelter and protection from the
weather and with humane care and treatment. No person shall inhumanely beat,
ill-treat, torment or otherwise abuse a dog.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person who violates or refuses to comply with this chapter shall be liable to a penalty as established under the general penalty provisions of this Code at § 1-15.